The European Union has urged Russia to rethink its decision to stop facilitating supplies, which Joe Biden has described as “purely ridiculous.”
NATO on Sunday urged Moscow to extend the United Nations-brokered agreement that allowed Ukraine to begin grain shipments across the Black Sea in the midst of a worldwide food crisis.
President Putin must cease using food as a weapon and terminate his unlawful conflict in Ukraine.
We encourage Russia to reconsider its decision and extend the agreement as soon as possible, allowing food to reach those in most need.
NATO countries have applauded the accord reached with Turkey’s assistance.
These exports have contributed to lower global food prices.
More on Russia’s defence ministry’s assertion on Sunday that it has retrieved and analyzed the wreckage of drones used in Saturday’s attack on ships from Russia’s Black Sea Fleet in Crimea. It alleges that the drones were outfitted with navigation systems produced in Canada.
According to Reuters, the ministry said that Ukraine attacked the Black Sea Fleet near Sevastopol with 16 drones early Saturday and that British military “specialists” assisted in coordinating what it dubbed a terrorist strike, a charge Britain denies.
Russia claimed the attack was repulsed, but the ships targeted were involved in guaranteeing the grain passage out of Ukraine’s Black Sea ports.
According to Reuters, Ukrainian authorities have speculated that Russia may have been involved in the explosions, which it has used as a reason to drop out of a U.N.-brokered grain pact, +undermining attempts to alleviate a worldwide food crisis.
Reuters stated that it was unable to verify either side’s assertions promptly.
In a statement, Russia’s defence ministry stated:
The launch of marine drones was carried out from the shore near the city of Odesa, according to the results of information obtained from the navigation receiver’s memory.
According to the report, the drones flew along the “grain corridor” security zone before turning around and heading for Russia’s naval station in Sevastopol, the main city on the Crimean peninsula, which Russia annexed from Ukraine in 2014.
According to the ministry, one of the marine drones looked to have originated from within the grain corridor’s security zone.
This might be a preliminary launch of this gadget from one of the civilian ships rented by Kyiv or its Western sponsors for the export of agricultural products from Ukrainian seaports.
People emerge from their subterranean bunkers in Bakhmut, Ukraine’s eastern Donbas area, to receive help.
